About Greet Grove
Greet Grove is a free directory of printable greeting card verses, organised around the moments people most often want to mark with a card — seasonal holidays, faith celebrations, anniversaries, life milestones, sympathies, get-wells, thank-yous and the smaller occasions that don’t make most calendars. The whole site is plain HTML. There’s nothing to sign up for, nothing to download, and no app.
What you’ll find here
The directory currently lists 1,920 named occasions across 26 categories, with locally observed holidays drawn from 250 countries and territories. Each occasion has its own page with five hand-written verses, a context paragraph that helps you decide whether the card fits, and a short list of related occasions.
How the directory was built
The list of occasions comes from Wikidata’s SPARQL endpoint — the same open dataset that powers Wikipedia’s structured data, many open-source calendars, and a great deal of academic research on global cultural events. We query Wikidata for every item that is an instance (or subclass) of public holiday, holiday, festival, or observance, then deduplicate, normalise the names, and assign each one to a Greet Grove category. To that we add a curated set of evergreen life milestones — birthdays at every milestone age, anniversaries by traditional gift year, life events like graduations and new homes, sympathies, get-wells, friendship cards, and so on — that aren’t holidays in the calendar sense but are exactly what most card-givers come looking for.
The verses themselves were written by people, not generated on the fly. They follow a small set of templates per category that are filled in for each occasion, so the tone stays consistent across cards while the wording stays specific to the moment. We deliberately kept the voice quiet and adult — no cartoon enthusiasm, no exclamation marks for their own sake, no greeting-card schmaltz.
Why “Greet Grove”?
Because a greeting is something you tend, and a grove is a small, quiet place where many different things grow side by side — which is a fair picture of this directory: hundreds of cultures’ occasions planted in one spot, each with a few well-chosen lines inside. We wanted something that felt like a small editorial project, not a clip-art warehouse, and the name is meant to carry that register.
What Greet Grove is not
Greet Grove does not e-mail cards on your behalf, doesn’t collect addresses, and doesn’t run a paid tier. We don’t print cards either — the printing happens at your kitchen table, on your printer, with your cardstock. The whole experience is meant to be private, slow, and low-friction.
Free to use, please credit
The verses on Greet Grove are free to copy, paste, print, and send for personal use — that is the entire point. If you’d like to republish a verse on a public site or in a commercial product, please link back to the relevant Greet Grove occasion page. The underlying occasion data (names, dates, country associations) comes from Wikidata under the CC0 public domain dedication.